It predates the Cold War, since I know it was the justification in the immediate aftermath of the Second World War for precisely how much of Eastern Europe Stalin got to enslave. So much for "muh Poland," eh, Limeys?
I get where you are coming from, and I understand your argument.
I just like making fun of the British for WW2. Unsporting, maybe, but still fun.
I have a theory about this. They are so ridiculously out of touch that they genuinely thought that serving HM's government in uniform would actually appeal to the average patriotic man when in practice, the average briton understands that the social contract is firmly against them so they feel no love for the government. There even was one completely deranged piece by some upper-class twit that the youth of Britain should consider it as a favor to return for having their health protected by the lockdowns.
Little secret, the white working class man, who is the traditional intake into the Forces have been walking away as the forces have been targeting troons, and gays.
I don't think Boris' opinion would make any difference either way. His pronouncements were almost certainly dictated by Washington DC in any case.
That's why I said in my big post that Sunak is a WEF stooge. Fortunately his grip on the country was so weak he couldn't persuade anyone into any pods and had to row back all his bug-eating policies. But those instincts are there, he clearly believes, as does Starmer, as does Sadiq Khan in particular, that the citizens of the UK are the property of the State. People like that don't see themselves as democratic leaders, they see themselves more like medieval kings.
A king would offer knighthoods and titles for those who serve well. These elites only can offer the stick to the interchangeable producer-consumer units that they see the population as, since offering wages and medals might be expensive.
The average person in the UK doesn't care about any of these foreign wars and doesn't want to be involved in them. Despite what the BBC keeps trying to push you see very little support for either side in day to day life. You might see some idiot flying a flag but the majority of people have real life to deal with. If it's not trying to budget increasingly small amounts of money, it's trying to figure out which of the 17 bins/buckets they need to put out this week since now they're on a stupid schedule and if you miss your main bin pick up it's 2 or 3 weeks with no bin. There is so much decline here it's hard to explain how much busy work something as simple as throwing away rubbish has become.
It's called stock options and invitations to Davos now and no, it's not for you.
This post is probably better suited for one of the Autistic Thunderdome threads, but I cannot lie when I say that when I heard what's been going down with the riots in the Norf due to the Southport massacre, I thought back to this thread and particularly how prophetic it's beginning to be, even as a non-Brit. Correct me if I'm wrong, but from what I'm seeing these are the harshest riots in the UK since 2011 at least. Even the impossible has been made possible - the Irish and British flags were marching together in Belfast against mass unchecked immigration. Wild scenes are playing out with burned down police stations and looted stores, things people never thought they would see from the native population again.
I'm afraid I am way too depressed and angry to write about this clusterfuck. I'd have to research the post and that would involve going over all this shit again and I'd probably start fedposting out of sheer rage. Sorry.
Completely understandable. If ever there was a week/fortnight that induces doom scrolling this would be it.
